Case Report
An abnormally displaced scaphoid fracture: a case report
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* Corresponding author: Serdar Toker tokerserdar@hotmail.com
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Dumlupinar University School of Medicine, 43270 Kutahya, Turkey
Cases Journal 2009, 2:9309 doi:10.1186/1757-1626-2-9309
Published: 11 December 2009Abstract
Scaphoid fractures are generally known to be difficult to diagnose and difficult to heal. In some reports, up to 40% of scaphoid fractures were reported to be missed at initial presentation. Clinical examinations and plain radiographs are generally poor at identifying scaphoid fractures immediately after injury. In this study we report a scaphoid fracture that has no difficulty in diagnosis because of a very strange and abnormal displacement.